Top 17 Soetsu Yanagi Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Soetsu Yanagi

#1. Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.

Jeff Davidson

#2. Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Robert Kiyosaki

#3. When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

Criss Jami

#4. My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.

Christine Ebersole

#5. When words leave off, music begins.

Heinrich Heine

#6. Every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

Winston Churchill

#7. In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.

Mark Hyman

#8. Ensure that both plan and dispositions are flexible, adaptable to circumstances. Your plan should foresee and provide for a next step in case of success or failure.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#9. Better to die, and sleep
The never-waking sleep, than linger on
And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

Sophocles

#10. War ... is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

Dana Kramer-Rolls

#11. Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

Isaac Watts

#12. I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell